Northern snakeheads in the tidal Potomac River system

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1605-1609

  Odenkirk, John ^a   Owens, Steve ^a  

^a Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; ELECTROFISHING; FISH; HABITAT STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; TIDAL CHANNEL; TRIBUTARY;

NORTH AMERICA; POTOMAC RIVER; UNITED STATES;

CHANNA ARGUS; CHANNIDAE;

EID: 33744810127     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T05-085.1     Document Type: Article

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